[Box Backup] Files are uploaded/patched daily even though they have not changed in weeks.

[Matt Brown]

Hi Chris,

>>> Damn, that sucks. I had no idea 1&1 would do that. I haven't seen  
>>> any
>>> evidence of it happening with a root server that I use there. What  
>>> does
>>> it look like? Is it long-running or idle connections that get
>>> terminated, or any connection? Could it be a firewall state table
>>> timeout?
>>
>> Seems to be idle timeout, if I leave an ssh session open it gets  
>> closed.
>> I do use their firewall option, so it could be a state thing.
>
> Yeah, I don't use their firewall, and I've had commentions open for 24
> hours. I'll open one now and see how long it lasts.
>
>>>> I was forced to point the data back to the original server so at
>>>> least the data was being backed up - (the pipe would fail and box
>>>> would fail to continue once the connection failed without  
>>>> restarting
>>>> the sync, leaving me with incomplete backups).
>>>
>>> I would definitely like to know more about this. Can you reproduce  
>>> this
>>> issue? What version of Box were you using? What do you get in the  
>>> logs
>>> after the aborted connection?
>>

I can still help on this one if you wish, would be nice to backup  
offsite ;-)

Matt